Mário Carneiro Movies

A reflection on books and culture through testimonies and images from the Rio de Janeiro's National Library. In this work commissioned by the...

This epic Brazilian film was based on the equally epic novel by Antonio Callado. Set between 1954 and 1964, the film's focus is the saga of Jesuit...

When womanizer Paulo meets a friend’s fiancée, she changes the way he looks at the opposite sex. He falls in love, and believes she is...

Documentary about the plastic artist F͟a͟r͟n͟e͟s͟e de Andrade, who builds objects 'assemblages' from the meeting of...

Powerful magician goes to jail for creating illusion of affluence in Brazilian town.

A volatile young man, Edu is a typical Rio de Janeiro middle-class kind, who flirts with multiple women at the same time. None of them, however, had...

The delicate process of rebuilding the memory and identity of the Guatós Indians, currently scattered throughout the Pantanal region.

Documentary about the great Brazilian photographers who helped develop Brazilian cinema and their opinions on their work, making movies in Brazil and...

A failed artist searching strength to move ahead. By a young lady, who might be his daughter, he develops a project that changes his destiny.

After a man dies under mysterious circumstances, his girlfriend and his gay lover deal with his death in different ways.

In a fictitious country, a civil servant receives the greatest inheritance in history (ten trillion dollars) and is confined by authorities to...

Biography of one of the legendary names in the Samba genre of Brazilian music. Although he could hardly dance or play an instrument, he became one of...

Unable to endure the idea that he would go without punishment, a criminal's victim chases him the length and breadth of Brazil for a showdown.

In a small town in Minas Gerais, the arrival of a young priest causes a commotion in the conservative atmosphere of the place, aggravated by the...

Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian dictatorship period to oppose the government through...